NEUR 4306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Etiology, Endorphins, Nucleus Accumbens
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Addiction criteria: a syndrome at the centre of which is loss of control over a reward-seeking behaviour . Food and body image: how body image has changed, 1-today, food is highly palatable, available, and very cheap, 2- coupled with increased pressure to be thin (women) and muscular (men) Ideal body image today is quite different from what it was even only as recently as 30 years ago. Ideal body shape changes with availability of food: both factors (among others) contribute to the increased incidence of eating disorders. Eating disorders include: anorexia nervosa (an, bulimia nervosa (bn, binge-eating disorder (bed, all characterized by weight and food preoccupation. Dsm5: dsm 5 criteria, major criteria, restricting energy intake leading to low body weight, disturbances in the way ones body weight or shape is experiences. Just eating more: severeity based on number of episodes per week.